cweis

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1. 1.▲
   by cweis 14y ago

   This is a very interesting discussion to me. I'm still on the fence about the idea of putting links in API formats. For HTML that works of course, because we understand contexts and meanings. Usually. But libraries have a harder time doing
2. 2.▲
   by cweis 14y ago

   We're not so much trying to make this an abstraction layer as we want to make this a library of API definitions that are clear, machine- as well as human-readable (to a point) format, that can be made usable by a connection factory instead
3. 3.▲
   by cweis 14y ago

   This is a good point that we discussed, too. While Hal, like HATEOAS is very interesting and definitely a simplification that's necessary to make our lives better, we're aiming at something different: we're trying to describe existing (ReST